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The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1887-10-15

Loss of Appetite, Bad
Breath, Bowels Costive,
Headache, with dull, heavy
sensation pain under Shout
der-blade, often mistaken for
Rheumatism ful!ness after
eating; Discrimination to
exertion Of body or mind ;
Irritability Of Temper; Low
Spirits Tor the B,ues); Rest
lessness, and a sensation Of
having left undone some
thing which ought to havo
been done; WEAKNESS Diz-
illness ; dots before the eyes;
highly-colored urine fttul
dreams Constipation, etc.
! Not all, but always some of
these symptoms indicate
want of action of the Liver.
For a safe, reliable remedy
that can do no harm and
has never been known to
fail to do good is Simmons
Liver Regulator.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1887-10-15
rahinE Tlms By tho Foreloen.

u wish 70 look at some mourning goods, ~
aid a lady, As she entered a dry goods
store.
YES, madam, ~ replied the clerk; "thIs
way, please.
After looking through tho entire stock
he remarked that she would come IN
Again in the course OF a day or two.
May I ask, " said the clerk, IN q sym.
pathetic tone OF voice, "if the death oc.
CURED In your immediate familyi"
~Thoro has been no death yet, she TO.
Piled. sadly "but my husband is very
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1887-10-15

"Simmons Liver Regulator acts like q
charm on the Liver without debilitating
and without any OF the evil effects OF
mercury. Have tried It thoroughly, and
speak what l know.-REv. y. GARDNER,
Atapulgus, Ga.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07
Social Posers Answered.

Rodolphus (Hackensack) says: O
"Will you suggest an easy and graceful
mode of acknowledging an introduction
to a young lady. Something not ;con-
ventional or formal? (2) How much
ought to pay for supper for myself
and lady friend after the theater? (3)
Would you advise me to marry on eight
dollars a week?" O "Ah, therer'
(2) The girl will settle that for you.
ANY suggestions on our part would be
superfuous. (3) No, Rodolphus. we
would not, but you'll do it-mark our
our words, you'll do it; we see it in ev-
cry line of your beautifully written let
ter. You'll do it; and oh. Rodolphus,
how sorry you'll be for it! The day
will ,ome when you'll wish you had
followed our advice, but just now you
don't feel that way. We are sorry for
you. Rodolphus, real sorry, and that's
about all we can say.-TId-B,ts
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07
HINGt.AM's OLD CHURCH.
inpsreshs Facts Concerning Americas
Haont Venerable Sanctuary.

AnOH< NencraDtc c8uSSu6Eys
Fer. the oldest church in this country
We; would naturally look to Virginia,
But the aristocratic cavaliers VINO
sailed up the James river brought with
them their cavalier notions about the
church and its legal establishment, and
SO they did not personally trouble them
selves about religious matters. To be
sure, chapels of the Church of England
| were early erected. but none Of them
are preserved to the present time. The
oldest church edifce in America is at
bingham, Mass. The town of bingham
is an unpretentiOus one, not more than
q doze miles from the center of the
city of Boston. 1t was settled in 1885.
and as the settlers were Puritans a
church and a school house were imme-
diately erected. Both were frail affairs,
put up until something better could be
afforded. 1t was not until 1851 that a
permanent structure was begun. 1t
was finished and dedicated the follow
ing year. Its attendants were Dissent
ers, and they had for a pastor that
strict old Cromwellian divine, the Rev.
John Norton. This man was of the
Cotton Mather type. and like Mather
he used to preach three or four hours
and.then, warming up to his subject, turn
over his hourglass and begin afresh.
The people who framed and erected
this building were loyal subjects of
King Charles H., and but little altered
it stands to-day sacred beacon still.
What changes it has Witnessed! Where
are the Stuarts? Think of the varying
political and religious sentiments that
have actuated the worshipers within
these walls! And yet this whole period
is spanned by the pastorates of only
six men. 1t would seem to be better
than life insurance policy to be chosen
pastor of the First Church of bingham.
The present head of the flock that wor-
ships there has seen thirty-two years
of service-the shortest period covered
by any of his predecessors. The fourth
pastor officiated for eighty-two years
and the fifth for sixty-fve. Among the
parishioners have been many Lincolns,
the same family from which the Presi-
dent was sprung, branch from an
older English brother. Rev. Calvin
Lincoln, the sixth pastor of the church,
was also of this famous family.
Except in the seating and the win
dows, the First Church of bingham
stands at present as it did more than
hundred years before the revolution.
The seats are modern in style and ar
rangement. and the windows are not
above twenty-five years old, though
they are diamond-shaped and conform
as nearly as possible to the pattern of
the original. All of the remainder of
the edifice is exactly as it was when
Boston was little more than the flag
staff that adorned old Beacon Hill, and
Philadelphia, that now boasts go many
ancient things. was swamp, in which
handful of Swedes were trying to
found a city.-Cor San Francisco Chron-
| tcle.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07
The Creation of Man.

Not loag ago a bright little girl in
the Sunday-schOol. who had reached
the bottom facts of the lesson-the cre-
alton of man out of the dust of the
ea-th-came running home to her
mother overful of confidence in the
Scripture theory and her own reflective
conclusions, AID exclaimed:
80, mother. know it's all true
what the catechism said about Adam
being made out of the dust of the
earth-I know it is.
"Why?"
Because | saw Aunt Emma whip
Oracle, and l saw the dust fly out of
her. know it is soi''
Little Oracle had been playing with
the ashes.-Teras Siftings.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07
Bed-Spring Fire Escapes.

Bed-springs have been, utilized to
form a fre-escspe, which consists OF
four sets of springs seven feet long and
just wide enough when laid together to
sit in a bed frame. Each set is attached
to the adjoining one by clamp, which
unites iron appendages fastened to the
end of the springs. These appendages
add to the length of the arrangement
SO as to make it about thirty feet long
when hanging out of the window. One
side of each set of springs is fitted with
rungs made of wrought iron. the only
part of the contrivance not OF steel
These rungs, which are on the outside
when the springs depend from the
window, and 1t fifteen inches apart,
form pretty s....ls ladder, which may
be made use of for descent.-Bostos
Budget.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07
TURKISH JOURNALS.
Growth of the Newspaper Press In an
Around COnstantinOple.

Growth of the Newspaper Press In and
Around COnstantinOple.
Among the various innovations lately
introduced into Turkey may be i'll
cluded that of newspapers.
The first. if we are not mistaken, ap-
peared in CoustantinOple in 1871. under
the auspices of Mr.. Oscanyan.. the,
former Turkish Consul General in New
York. and was called AztGrar BizantiG71,
or the Byzantine Advertiser. The peO-
pie, unacquainted at that time with the
aim and Importance of daily chron-
icler. were not prepared to appreciate
the value of newspaper, and were
slow to patronize the paper. 1t was
obliged to stop. Since then more fire.
quent intercourse with the rest of Eu-
rope and political incidents which made
the people eager for news gave rise to
the publication of other newspapers,
whose number is now legion.
There are at present more than twenty
different dailies and twenty weeklies
appearing N ConstantinoPie in various
dialects. each advocating its own par
ticular interest. Among the organs of
the different natiOnalities in Turkey
may be mentioned the Aklttar (StarJ,
which represents the Persian interest.
in Turkey. 1t is printed in Turkish
script, though the language is Persian
1t commences at the right hand corner
of the sheet with the announcement
that ''the office of publication of the
AElitar is at Valide Khan in the seat of
felicity (Constantinople). All cOmmu-
nications must be addressed to Mehmed
Tehir Effendi, sole editor and propri-
etOr.
In imitation of French journals. the
paper commences with an editorial on
the affairs of Siam as leader, followed
By telegraphic news, both foreign and
domestic, extracts from foreign papers,
home news, current events, official pro-
motions and few advertisements.
These papers are sold st an average
price of four cents per copy, and an
edition of 1000 is considered large
There being strict surveillance over,
all publications by the Government, the
editors are restrained from indulging
In liberal thoughts and observations, as
well as on what news they publish, so
that these prints are, as a matter Of
course, vapid and devoid of interest.
and can not in any sense be called
newspapers. IN = GrgpAte.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07
BAKING SICK INDIANS.
Remarkable Ways of Treating Disease In
Vogue Among the Apaches.

| Remarkable ways OF Treating Disease In
| Vogue Among the Apaches.
To combat their ailments they have
only the usual superstitious rites of a
few ignorant medicine men," and oc-
casionally make use of those heroic and
| barbarOus treatments so common with
savages, says Lieutenant Schwatka,
writing of Apache customs. One of
| these, think. may be interesting. A
| great hole, large enough to receive the
| body of the invalid in recumbent po-
sition, is dug in the ground. In this ex-
cavatiOn a fire is maintained until the
ground is heated to its greatest possible
extent. when the embers and ashes are
scraped out. Several layers of damp
mud are Immediately used to plaster the
walls os this fiery furnace, and the in
valid is then placed within and covered
up with mud, the head alone protruding.
The escaping steam makes the torture
endured by the poor wretch for the
thirty-six to forty-eight hours of misery
in the prison of baked clay oftentimes
insupportable, and but few survive the
severe ordeal. A Mojave squaw. with
the Americanized name of Polly"
rallied from this terrible inquisition,
but it took the kindest treatment for
two months under the care of white
physician to save her life.
Nearly all the Apaches are addicted to
tattoong, their faces and wrists being
usually adorned, and, as far as l casu-
ally noticed, there being no difference
between the men and women. Paints
and pigments of all characters are
eagerly sought for temporary personal
ornamentation, the Yumas and Mojaves
even descending to stove-polish, boot
blacking and mud. Undoubtedly the
latter, in some of its applications, serves
more practical purpose than mere
ornamentation. A thin coating of soft
clay is matted through the hair and
then plastered carefully down upon the
skull. until it resembles, when dry, a
shining bald head or an inverted earthen
bowl. This is left on for two or three
days until it has subserved its purpose
of deadly destruction, when the earthly
skull-cap is broken with stick and the
beating process continued until every
particle of dust is thoroughly eradi-
Gated, when the hair is washed with
the soft pulp of the root of the Yucca
palm. which produces soapy lather.
After this the hair is energetically
rinsed and then whipped in the open air
until dry. From all this manipulation it
emerges as glossy and as soft as silk.
This Yucca palm is commonly known
as the Spanish bayonet and oftentimes
as the soap-weed, the latter name being
evidently derived from this peculiar
use by the Indians and Mexicans. 1t
is one of the most extensively common
plants of Apache land and contiguous
countries, and it is well for those local
tiles that a commercial use has been
found for this abundant weed-its pulp.
according to recent experiments, bid
ding fair to give very fine grade of
printing paper. Thus the vulgar soap
weed that cIeanses the outside of the
Apache's head may yet improve its
interior through the medium of the
press.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07

An old bee-keeper says that in To-
calities where willows and hazel do not
abound it is well to feed bees with rye
meal. as it is good substitute for pol
len, which is the main ingredient in the
bee bread, on which young bees aref fed.
Rye meal, when fed. especially in late
springs, stimulates brood rearing, and
enables colonies to send out earlier
and stronger swarms. 1t should be
placed in shallow troughs or pans rod
or more from the hives, where it will
soon be found by the bees and gathered
eagerly by them.-Troy Times.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07
INDEPENDENCE DAY, I77e.

Ring out, glad bells, your merry chime,
Proclaim to every land and cline,
On this bright gladsome July morn
A people free, a Nation born.
Chime through the city, vile and town,
Regardless of the tyrant's frown,
Ring out DER woods and mountains wild,
The birth Of freedoms beauteous child
Send tidings DER the foam-vhite tide
Over the restless waters wide
Where crested billowS surge and swell
Thy holy echoes, blitbesome bell:
Like timbrel sound across the sea,
Columbia's hymn of liberty
Her psalm Of Independence.
Peal. cannons peal! the glad news forth,
Proclaim IL to the frigid North;
Belch from your every iron mouth
The summons to the sunny South.
Oh! flash the glorious news abroad
From warm Key West TO cold Cape Cod;
Let the report of freedoms gun
Be heard at glorious Lexington,
And from the Atlantic's billowy breast
Send the glad tidings to the West,
Across the prairie and the brake,
From Boston Bay to Erie's lake,
And let Niagara's thunder song,
The glory Of thy theme prolong;
Columbia's Independence.
Let brilliant watchfires glesm tonight
Upon the mountains dizzy height,
On every hill, at every post,
On every headland round the coast,
On all the crosswayS through the land,
On every beach, on every strand.
Showing their signals. white and red,
From Mason's Bay to Hilton Head,
And fash from every rocky steep,
Along the Atlantic's seething deep;
And from each ruddy fame shall glow
Freedoms defiance to the foe,
And light the midnight's darkling haze
Till P1ymouth's Rock reflects the blaze
.. or sacred Independence.
Speed bounding bark with flowing SAIL
Publish the tidinCs on the gale,
And let it spread from sea to sea,
America to lead the free!
Conceived in fire. in the wild fame
OF contest waged in freedoms name.
Born in the battles mad ming strife,
And proudly ushered into life
Amid the craze Of wars alarms,
And Graded in a warriors arms,
In revolutions fiery food;
Baptized in freedoms sea Of blood
Her font helmet-in her hand
Baptismal gift-a battle brand,
The first shrill sounds that met her ears
Were freedoms guns and freemen'S cheers
For welcome Independence.
Hark, the glad sound Of music sweet,
From happy crowds that tArong the street,
With wild delight and mirthful glee
They chant the anthem OF the free,
With bugle. horn, with drum and fife,
Hailing Nation born 10 life.
This holiday of freedoms world,
Bright with her banners now unfurled,
Let it resound DER cape and bay
Greeting the Nations natal day,
Reverberate each song and cheer,
Till the old town of Concord hear
The glorious strains, till stream and rill
Send echoes back to Bunker Hill
or lasting Independence.
Charles j. Bedttie, IN Inter Ocean.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07
Deserves to be Sick.

Doctor-Haye you taken your pills
regularly?
Patient-Eyery two hours as directed.
Doctor-Did you eat nothing except
what l told you?
Patient-Nothing.
Doctor enthusiastically shaking his
patients hand)-My dear sir, you are
a model patient. You deserve to be
sick, you do.-Teras Sitings.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07

Brown Bread Mush: Break up a
pint of dry bread in small pieces.
Mix with one-fourth cup of butter in a
double boiler. add sufficient milk to
cover, and cook over hot watep without
stirring it till the bread has absorbed
all the milk. Eat with cream.-EI-
change.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07

The communistic colony at Port
Angeles, on Puget Sound, now numbers
l5O persons. They own two thousand
acres of land, and expect to build aud
operate a saw-mill soon. Unlike other
successful colonies, they profess no re-
igious basis, and cast aside creed.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07

Ordinary people may well think
twice before speaking once; but there
are some who can study out so much
meanness between a first and second
thought that we prefer they should
blurt cut their first thoughts every
time.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07

-Ithas been ascertained by recent ex-
periments in Paris that snail can travel
. mile in just fourteen days.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07

After she had spent four hour
shop-window gazing. she went home
and told her husband that she was sea
sick.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07

wife. In the morning she will be here
under my hand. As the conductor is not
married, it follows, of course, that he has
a mistress. If we can discover who she is.
we shall have not the one but the two
women who are in question, and thereby
arrive at solution of the puzzle"
Telegraphing the news of the robbery to
every station along the line, the magistrate
shut himself into his apartments with the
return dispatches and studied them dill
gently. From the most of them nothing
could be learned; two alone attracted his
attention. The first one stated that a rail-
way guard had seen woman's hand thrust
from the window of a second-class COM
partment and throw something upon the
track. The guard had evea searched for
the article thrown out, but had found moth
ing. The second dispatch was even more
serious. Another guard, as the traia
whirled by, had seen the conductor talking
with woman, who leaned from the window
of third-class compartment; also, that
they had passed something to one another.
but whether it was the woman who gave it
to the conductor, or the conductor who gave
it to the woman, he could not say.
"Behold the womanr' cried Heveder.
triumphautly. 81 was sure of it: this is
| the womanl If it is the conductor who has
stolen the money, she is his accomplice,
and she we must find. So much for the
first suspect. AS for the secondhand here
have an opportunity to pro@e my superb
ority as psychOlogist-if Cato himself
has stolen the ten thousand forms, and
then played the game Of being robbed to
cast of suspicion, this accomplice is the
woman whom the guard saw throw some
thing from the window of the second-class
compartment, and that something was, Of
course, the emptied mouey-bag. Besides
all this, there is still third hypothesis
Czato's wife may be his accomplice, but if
| SO. the other woman can have had nothing
Great Falls tribune., 1887-02-12
THE SITUATION.

That the situation is ssrious ss 70 the
condition of stock on the range there can
be NO doubt says the Montana Live Stock
Journal. This is due to more than one
cause, the ranges have been over-crowded,
and the grass was eaten during the warm
season and generally speaking, the supply
OF cured grass was short. The summer
made things worse as it was long and ex-
ceedingly hot with little rain. This win
ter has been almost phenomenal for its ex-
tre.ne coldness and for the great depth Of
snow. The grass left has baen so deeply
covered that but little could be found
The stock has been driven by harsh winds
and drifting snow into the valleys where
the snow is deep and food more scarce.
The result may not be so severe as expect
ed. There is always some loss during cold
weather, but it is confined to trail cattle
and the weaker stock on the range. It is
a hard matter to kill steer.
Whatever may be the end and it is to be
hoped that the great industry will not suf-
fer, there is one thing which will be learn
ed more fully. That is the aboriginal
method of raising cattle will be modified.
Those who have been feeding have cause
to congratulate themselves; those who did
not will lose no more stock from following
the Indian plan. Free ranging, except for
short time will be abandoned more or less
and the stock will depend on the owaer
for living anu not on chance. The most
careful stockmen on the range and those
who raise blooded stock, have better grades
of cattle than those who turn them out de-
pending entirely on the elements fer sue
cess. The loss while to be deplored is not
an unmixed evil for the country at large
1t will result in greater care, better feed,
cultivation of more land and better stock
with less loss Then instead of viewing
the snow fall with lowering brow, the
storm will be more OF pleasure to the
rancher and stockman who sees in it full
streams for irrigation and good feed with
no danger to his possessions.
Great Falls tribune., 1887-02-12
THE RIGHT OF WAY BILL.

After months of suspense, the bill grant
ing to the Manitoba railroad company the
right of way through the northern Indian
reservations, has passed the senate and is
now practically law, as the Objectionable
features which caused its veto by the
president last year have been removed and
Dir. Cleveland now favors its passage. To
Montana the advent of this great railroad
is priceless boon. At this early date it
is impossible to foretell with any degree
of accuracy the effect its advent will have
upon the future substantial prosperity OF
Montana, but it is safe to say that it will
within / year after it's completion advance
the territory twenty years ahead Of what
it would otherwise have been. 1t viii
open up a great country rich in natural re-
sources, and capable Of sustaining a large
population. To Great Falls in particular
will the beneficial effects of its advent be
most manifest.
Great Falls tribune., 1887-02-12
The EAexican Pension Act.

Washington Special: Gen. Black, COM
missioner Of pensions, is preparing cir
cular to explain who are entitled to the
provisions of the Mexican pension act. He
has embodied in the circulars the portions
of the act which indicate who are to en-
JOY It's benefits, with explanatory rema-ks
calculated to make such sections clear. He
snnounced that only soldiers of the Mexi-
can war, who served sixty days therein and
are now sixty-two years old can secure a
pension unless they can prove disability
or dependence, The widow of such sol
der is also barred from the benefits Of the
act unless she has reached slxty-two or is
dependent. Tae commissioner alse in
forms the surviving officers of the wsr
that the act places them on the samess foot
lag with the soldiers and they only re-
ceive pensions upon the same conditions.
The amount of pension can in no case be
greater than that Of the soldieE-that is sS
per month.